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...thin cotton mask and makeshift welder's goggles, Dr. Li Li guards China's shifting front line against the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic. The young doctor oversees a new fever ward at the medical clinic in Biange township in central China's largely rural Hebei province, and he's dangerously unprepared for an outbreak of the disease. A chronic funding shortage means his clinic lacks even enough surgical masks. Behind him, workers erect a flimsy Plexiglas shield across a hallway to create an isolation ward where one patient already lies feverish. Asked if his facility can cope with...
...virus. At least 70 doctors and nurses and 20 patients at the hospital were already carrying the disease. In an effort to prevent the disease from spreading, Beijing has begun touting a soon-to-be-finished facility dedicated to SARS victims; wards are being constructed out of the same makeshift material usually used to house migrant workers...
McCormick says technical constraints—like lighting and wall room—make it hard to simply use other spaces as makeshift display spaces...
...reality is that SARS patients are overflowing from Taiyuan's threadbare hospitals. With nearly 40 confirmed cases filling up one quarantine ward at the Shanxi Medical University No. 1 Hospital, another makeshift isolation section had been set up in the back of the hospital. Many of this ward's rooms have as many as five suspected SARS patients squeezed into them, their coughs wafting freely through screens into the corridor. Family members can intermingle with patients, and some relatives are not even wearing masks...
Saddam Hussein--supposing that was he on the grainy videotape aired last week barely three hours after the opening salvo intended to kill him--hardly seemed himself. Pictured alone in a cramped makeshift studio, the dictator, 65, looked shaken and tired, his face puffy behind big spectacles he rarely wears in public. His words, rambling and repetitive, were read from scribbled notes on a large pad held in a hand more often seen brandishing a rifle. In that context, his characteristic call to Iraqis to "draw your sword" to defeat "little, evil Bush" sounded like the recoil...